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The dogs are about i81b. in weight, bitches I5lb. to 

 i61b., white in colour with more or less black and 

 tan markings, and in work their owner says he has 

 never seen their equal with either fox, otter, or 

 badger. 



To come to the more modern strain, of which it 

 has been said, and with truth, that Mr. W. Carrick's 

 Tack, born in May, 1884, is the best of his variety 

 that we have yet seen. He is a i7lb. dog, and 

 his chief defect lies in a scantiness of coat on his 

 sides and ribs, and down his legs, but what there is, 

 is of good, hard quality. Why the jacket is thin can 

 easily be judged, for his sire Trick had for his dam 

 Patch, a smooth-coated bitch by Buffet out of 

 Milly, who was likewise a smooth-coated bitch 

 descended from the Trimmer family. This Patch 

 must not be confounded with other terriers of that 

 name, as has been the case, for she was owned by 

 Mr. A. Maxwell, and was not the bitch of Mr. 

 Proctor's, that came from the same district of 

 Durham. Tack's mother was the wire-haired bitch 

 Lill Foiler, whose dam was said to be a grand- 

 daughter of J. Russell's Fuss, but whether this be 

 the case is open to doubt. Lill Foiler, too, had the 

 blood of the smooth strain in her veins, and possibly 

 to Jester, sire of Trick, a pure terrier of the old 

 stamp, he owes all his quality. Indeed, this dog 



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